posted on sunstar.com: YEAH, you all heard about Fil-American porn star Mimi Miyagi’s plan to run for US Congress representing the state of Nevada. For Miyagi fans this is something to rejoice; at last, some show of respectability!
Never again to hide in the shadows and stink of private clubs and chat rooms where male fantasies come alive in full color, Miyagi now wants a bigger stage to unravel her, uh, assets.
This is not to say that Miyagi is the willing, dumb girl she usually acts out in her porno roles. She actually set up her own website and is described as something of a prodigy, displaying a strong capacity for acquiring skills — hence setting up her own web site.
However, these traits won’t be given much notice by her (usually) male fans and the moralists who would cry a river and denounce to high heavens the possibility of a porn star, a Fil-American star at that, being included in the honorable halls of the US Congress. Then again, cynics would debate whether there is anything honorable about politicians these days, American or Filipino.
Like the article’s title states, porn stars have become the butt of jokes and received raised eyebrows, sniffing noses and no small amount of condemnation from moralists, feminists and the guardians of society who see them as symbols of the continued exploitation of women in the flesh trade.
To be fair though the greater part of the condemnation lies in the people behind the porn industry, who have taken steps to professionalize its ranks and organized its own version of the Adult Academy Awards.
Having said that, however, the chances of porn stars making it into public office may be few and far between though not impossible. There’s this Italian dame who landed a post in parliament and even flashed an occasional headlight every once in a while.
The lady even offered to sleep with Saddam Hussein during the height of the Kuwaiti crisis in 1990, thus giving a whole new meaning to the Woodstock motto “Make Love Not War.”
How about here in the Philippines? Well, the little known sexy actress Barbara Milano supposedly won a seat in the Talavera town council in Nueva Ecija, Luzon and will run for re-election next year. And the former sexy actress Sarsi Emmanuelle is a trader of ready to wear (RTW) clothing.
Even the popular TV game host Jeanne Young of Spin-A-Win fame in RPN 9 used to work as a sexy actress though not in the league of the aforementioned Milano and Emmanuelle.
So it only goes to show that like wrestlers such as Jesse Ventura, who served as governor of Minnesota state, porn stars do have what it takes to serve in public office. Though people may wonder what kind of government we have where officials used to work by cavorting before the camera.
Then again what better representative of Nevada and its most famous city, Las Vegas (also known as Sin City) to the US Congress than a former porno star?
Them Americans and us Filipinos can do a lot worse. Like voting “Garci” to office. And I don’t mean the vampy Viva Hot Babe.